vSpring Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in seed, startup, and early-stage investments. The firm also seeks to invest in later stage companies under special circumstances. It seeks to in invest in large and growing markets that allow companies to expand rapidly to significant size between two years and five years and in companies that have a strong position in an established or niche market. The firm seeks to invest in information technology and life sciences companies. It also seeks to invest in biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies including genomics, proteomics, and enabling technologies employed in drug discovery, synthesis, screening, and delivery; networking companies; other opportunities that can capture significant market share in an emerging, high growth service industry through the application of new technologies including wireless, telecommunications, infrastructure, linux, multimedia, and information management; enterprise software; communications; security software; Internet; mobile computing; diagnostics; and medical devices. The firm prefers to invest in the Intermountain West region in the United States. It can invest in other regions for later-stage investments but in syndication with a lead investor. The firm seeks to invest between $250,000 and $5 million. It typically invests between $2 million and $3 million initially and expects to invest $5 million over the life of a company. The firm prefers to act as a lead investor and take a board seat in the portfolio companies. It is a licensed Small Business Investment Company. vSpring Capital was founded in 2000 by Mr. Paul Ahlstrom and is based in Salt Lake City, Utah with additional offices in Los Alamos, New Mexico and Albuquerque, New Mexico.